Parafin · 4 months ago
Partner Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expParafin is a company dedicated to supporting small businesses by providing them with financial tools through technology. They are looking for a Partner Engineer to lead technical discovery, manage integrations, and support partners throughout the partnership lifecycle, ensuring a smooth onboarding process and ongoing technical account management.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechSmall and Medium Businesses
Responsibilities
Lead technical discovery with partners, evaluating feasibility and driving scoping sessions to define integration approaches across diverse capital partnerships
Define a best-in-class technical pre-sales strategy and process at Parafin in collaboration with leadership
Develop detailed architectural blueprints and technical documentation for project implementation
Conduct informative and engaging sessions to showcase our product portfolio, advocating for the most suitable technical solutions for our partners
Develop and execute proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility and effectiveness of embedded finance
Scale technical onboarding with a focus on reducing the time to integrate with Parafin products. This can include owning and building internal or partner-facing tools to streamline onboarding
Drive the technical implementation of new capital launches from initial planning through partner coordination, issue resolution, comprehensive testing, and final go-live
Act as the central point of contact for identifying and debugging critical technical issues, coordinating prompt resolutions between internal teams and platform partners. Where necessary, provide tailored solutions to meet partners’ integration needs
Document integration details and processes (internally and for partners), ensuring knowledge transfer and ease of support as our partner portfolio scales
Be the voice for our partners internally - Capture integration learnings and feedback to influence product roadmap, APIs, and platform improvements
Provide partner focussed support, monitoring and stability post-launch
Provide ongoing technical account management post-launch - optimizing integrations, expanding product usage, and monitoring and swiftly resolving integration-related challenges
Drive tooling & automation to scale repeatable integration patterns
Work with Product & Platform teams to evolve partner facing assets based on real-world partner needs
Instrument telemetry, logs, dashboards to monitor partner integrations at scale
Uphold technical documentation standards across company and be the flag bearer for managing our public facing docs
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in client-facing technical roles, preferably in solutions engineering, software integration, technical partner support, customer success engineer or technical GTM engineer
Strong engineering background with fluency in at least 2 programming languages a plus (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives
Proficiency with integration technologies, such as REST APIs, webhooks, SDKs, data pipelines, and embeddable UI components
Strong problem-solving skills, with a partner-focused approach. You have a demonstrated background of relentlessly raising the bar for great partner experience
Great intuition for navigating standard/generalizable vs. custom partner solutions and guiding partners toward the optimal approach that considers both partner needs and engineering resourcing
Comfortable exploring and navigating Parafin's codebase, particularly with proficiency in React, Scala, and Python
Proven experience in creating working demos and production applications, showcasing your ability to apply technical skills to practical use cases
Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment, adapting quickly to evolving requirements and priorities
Demonstrated passion for helping small businesses grow and succeed, showing genuine dedication to the success of our partners
Proficiency in crafting clear technical documentation for effective knowledge sharing, troubleshooting, and best practice distribution to internal teams and external partners
Preferred
Knowledge of our industry's best practices for integration and technical scoping
Familiarity with SQL preferred
Experience working in Fintech is a plus
Benefits
Equity grant
Medical, dental & vision insurance
Unlimited PTO & work from home flexibility
Commuter benefits
Free lunches
Paid parental leave
401(k)
Employee assistance program
Company
Parafin
Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that offers pre-built financial services programs to support small businesses.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$562MKey Investors
Notable CapitalGICThrive Capital
2024-12-17Series C· $100M
2024-08-28Debt Financing· $93M
2024-04-10Debt Financing· $125M
Leadership Team
Sahill Poddar
Co-Founder & CEO
Vineet Goel
Co-Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-12-15
2025-12-09
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